‘Charlie Angels’: Everything You Need to Know About Elizabeth Banks’ Feminist Action Reboot.
We are riding a wave of nostalgia at the movie theaters these days, and it doesn’t look to be subsiding any time soon. Properties like Child Play, Toy Story, Aladdin, and Spider-Man are luring audiences in with new stories from their franchises. On the horizon, we have live-action Lion King and a Fast & Furious spinoff to look forward to.
Er, actually don’t call it a reboot. Or even a revival. According to Banks, who directed the film and wrote the script, the upcoming action film is more of a “continuation” or sequel that both builds on the events of the original TV series and two movies from the ‘00s as well as connect them all together to make one large Charlie Angels canon.
These days, you need a good reason to bring a familiar property back off of the proverbial production shelf, and Elizabeth Banks thinks she has a really good one for Charlie Angels. The longtime comedian and budding filmmaker will reinvent Charlie Angels for a new generation with a sequel that hitting theaters in November.
Recently, CinemaBlend was lucky enough to visit Banks’ Charlie Angels set in Berlin, where she opened up about her ideas behind the return of the female-fronted, ass-kicking series.
Banks told "I honestly feel that the property has all of the bona fides of feminism already built in. I really didn’t have to do much other than honor its entire history. By that I mean, the original TV show was about women who went to the police academy but then were not allowed to actually be full police officers. They were given the jobs like ‘desk clerk’ and ‘meter maid.’ Charlie, Charles Townsend, came along and said, ‘Now they work for me. My name is Charlie.’ And he gave them the opportunity to live their best lives. And I feel like this entire endeavor is about giving women the opportunity, including myself, to participate fully in a really big action franchise. We’ve done it. It been something that been in the DNA of Charlie Angels from the beginning."
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We will get to see how all of this plays out on the big screen when Elizabeth Banks’ version of Charlie Angels opens in theaters on November 15. It will be competing against the likes of Midway and Ford v. Ferrari. Meanwhile, Terminator: Dark Fate still likely will be pulling in interested parties.